About Us

Overview

The Association of Tanzania Oil and Gas Service Providers (ATOGS) has been formed to act as a convening body for different players across the full value chain of the Oil & Gas industry in Tanzania. ATOGS seeks to represent interest of the local providers as companies position themselves to participate fully in the emerging sector.

Particular areas of interest for ATOGS are:
Policy advocacy for promotion of local content in the development of the Oil & Gas industry;
Development of internationally recognised technical and safety standards for local providers; and
Creating a trusted and credible network of providers to facilitate local and international partnerships.

Our Mission

ATOGS is a membership organisation that strives to galvanise diverse Tanzanian players within the Oil & Gas industry in order to allow the industry to speak in one voice and provide other stakeholders wanting to engage the industry, a single credible and reputable point of reference.

Our Vision

To be the pre-eminent industry body advancing the interests of Tanzanians in the Oil & Gas industry.

Background

ATOGS was founded in recognition of the opportunities that lie ahead for local companies off the back of the large gas deposit discoveries in Tanzania, the new Uganda to Tanzania crude oil pipeline and the aspiration for development of gas distribution networks in major cities. These new opportunities come with 4 main challenges for companies seeking to be part of this emerging sector;

Most traditional engineering and other services companies aren’t able to make a clear link between their value propositions and the requirements of the energy sector

Even once opportunities are identified, companies find they need to bid for work with companies requiring certain internationally recognisable standards which they lack

Some companies wish to overcome the skills, competency and accreditation gaps through partnerships with others but are very limited in terms of access to those credible partners to engage locally and internationally

International companies coming to Tanzania struggle to find a credible sector specific body to engage to find reputable local partners to work with

ATOGS tries to address each of these challenges by creating a credible and reputable sector led body to act as a convening entity to mobilise support from its membership and engage the government, the IoC community, educational institutions, professional bodies, civil society, development community and other stakeholders. There are also specific challenges of cross boarder projects like the Uganda to Tanzania pipeline that require cooperation of the sector in either country where industry led representative bodies like ATOGS in Tanzania and its counterparts, KOGA in Kenya and AUGOS in Uganda become instrumental in cooperating and coordinating initiatives in areas such as;

Skill training and development

Standards development

Promoting industry activities

Strategic partnerships

ATOGS Value Proposition

The strategy adopted by ATOGS draws on the experience of other large-scale infrastructure projects in Tanzania. It is clear that a competent local mobile workforce does exist; having been trained by existing local and locally registered international companies.

However, this is small in scale and a key challenge will be to organize and scale up to meet the size of expected demand during the construction phase of key projects such as the crude oil export pipeline, the development of the LNG plant and future extensions of existing infrastructure.

Furthermore, the recently enacted Petroleum Act 2015 (PA2015) also introduces specific local content requirements. There is immediate legal compliance for procurement in the oil & gas sector as spelled out in Section 219, which introduces the requirement that; “to the extent goods and services are not available in Tanzania, such goods and services will be obtained through a joint venture with a local company that owns at least a 25% interest in such joint venture”.

In light of this, ATOGS sees the value of a convening platform to shore up the Governments’ efforts to facilitate the exposure and participation of local business to a global value chain and deliver the enhanced economic impact brought by locally owned firms. The premise that locally owned and operated businesses generate greater local economic activity than their chain counterparts has become widely understood and accepted.

Today, the most readily captured opportunities for Tanzanian suppliers are in construction, engineering services, procurement of materials, logistics and indirect services (such as accommodation, transport, facilities management, operation and maintenance) also the associated value chains. Other areas that present immediate opportunities local participation are non-technical areas like insurance, financial, banking, legal, security services, catering and emergency services. However, local companies tend to find it more challenging to access opportunities related to the more complex, technical areas. ATOGS’s proposed collaborative platform help to enhance access to strategic international partnerships and delivering exposure to ‘hard to enter’ value chains.

Below are a few examples from the Tanzania Local Content Act that holds to benefit the local content in ways of:

Preference to good which are produced or available in Tanzania and services which are rendered by Tanzanian citizens and companies

Where the goods and services required are not available in Tanzania, they must be provided by a joint venture company in which a Tanzanian company

ATOGS will utilise the expertise of a number of international suppliers that have already establish themselves in Tanzania. These locally registered international (LRI) companies based in Tanzania can and should play a pivotal role in supporting and building Local Content, in particular by training and developing of local workforce, building supplier capacity to allow for participation of Tanzanian companies and transfer of knowledge. It is ATOGS belief LRI’s are likely to complement its efforts to bridging the international standards and accreditation gaps, enhance efforts in creating credible international partnerships as well as contributing to growth in key sectors of the Tanzanian economy.

Governing Council

The association’s structure reflects the challenges of the sector that it seeks to address. The association will be headed by a chairman. The chairman will be supported by a board of directors, each of whom will have specifically assigned institutional duties

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Members of the Governing Council

Abdulsamad Abdulrahim

Acting Chairman

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Nasra Hassan

Chief Executive Officer

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Esther Mmbaga

National Development Empowerment Council(NEEC) Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Silas Olang

Industry / Business Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Aly Dewji

Industry / Business Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Gary Allen

Industry / Business Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Jumbe Menye

Industry / Business Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Lawrence Mafuru

Industry / Business Representative

Association of Tanzania Oil & Gas Service Providers

Secretariat

The secretariat is the body that will be charged with the responsibility of managing the finances, employee recruitment and public image of the association. It is the back office made up of highly trained individuals who will handle all the resources necessary for maintaining transparency, accountability and stable growth of the association.